Short Stories

The Girl with a Pimply Face

" Doctor, you save my baby. I pay you everything,"

" The infant had a severe congenital heart defect, a roar when you listened over the heart that meant, to put it crudely, that she was no good, never would be."

" I'll help her, I said, but she's got a bad heart."

" I pay you. I pay you twenty dollar. Doctor, you fix my baby. You good doctor. You fix."


The use of Force

" I'm here to look at her throat on the chance that she might have diphtheria and possibly die of it."

" I had to have a throat culture for her own protection. But First I told the parents that it was entirely up to them."

"Her tongue was cut and she was screaming in wild hysterical shrieks."

" And there it was both tonsils covered with membrane."

In both stories the doctor would do whatever they can to save the patient’s life. However, the only difference between both stories is that in The Girl with a Pimply Face, a Russian family would keep asking for a doctor to come and save her baby.  The doctor would continue to come and check on the baby but, not get paid for the visits because the family did not have enough money.  Until, another doctor told him that he had delivery that baby and didn't paid him either. However, they did have money because the father gets paid by the county. So family is a bunch of liars and the mother is always drinking whisky so, she's never in a stable mind. So the doctor tells him to not continue to see they baby because they are using him.  In The use of Force, the family was not liars. They will do anything for their daughter. The doctor use his knowledge on medicine to be able to  save the child from diphtheria.